Tristen Kozinski

Tristen enjoys playing chess, keeping bees, playing the occasional video game and imagining impossible situations for his siblings to get out of.

The Darkness That Slept

Fantasy

After their disappearance, few believed they were truly gone, for such nightmares could not die so easily. Now, centuries later, most have forgotten even their myth, forgotten why men are supposed to fear the dark.

They walk the earth once again, their footsteps sounding as a herald to a forgotten conflict, a conflict born of fathomless hate. Their words are like the chiming of a bell, resonating coldly across the land to awaken all the dark, terrible things that have slumbered in their absence, insuring that nothing of good or light survives.

All that opposes them is a tired family and a scattered collection of madmen, outcasts, mystics, and deceivers, most of whom do not even realize fate is tethered to them. They are the seneschals of light and even the Gods cannot predict their futures.​Sides are being taken, alliance formed, and old pacts shattered. Everything is drowning in a flood of rising chaos, and the only thing that is certain is that this world and her people will bleed.

A Crime of Honor

Fantasy

Emperor Sarizen Judas has ruled uncontested since his ascension fifty years ago. He is vicious when provoked, has a serpentine intelligence and possesses a force of will that grinds mountains. His control over the elemental Mantra is unmatched. But, he is also dangerously repressive of all non-human species. His hatred is blind and relentless, damaging not only to the afflicted but also the nation itself. This is why Surr, one of Sarizen’s own High-Princes, has abandoned his people in the South and traveled to the Inner Kingdom. He must kill Sarizen, even if it seems impossible and may cost him everything.

Death's Backdoor

Fantasy

Thomas died young, leaving behind a cherished but poor family. Now, his soul is wandering the vast realms of Death in pursuit of a distant hope. There is a way to escape Death and return to the living, but it is perilous and a single misstep would lead to the eradication of his essence. Nonetheless, Thomas must return to his loved ones with only the help of a child's soul and that of a bitter woman.

Nemesis

Fantasy

Taelan Muntalabac is the Hate-Monger, a creature born to feast on the hatred and malice of men, and the Andaur Empire is the stage for his grand machinations.​Opposite him stands Maevos Avenar, a man destined to be his nemesis from birth, but who has no knowledge of him or the war their families have fought for centuries.

The City of Locked Doors

Fantasy

Four hundred years ago a plague befell the world. It warped the bodies of all organic things and drove both man and beast rabid during the night. Law and order vanished in a matter of days, along with most of the human race.

Years passed and from this madness rose the Tyrants, a brutal god-like sect of individuals who could enforce their will on the surviving dregs of humanity. With their tyranny, they brought order back into the world and established settlements. A convoluted semblance of civilization began, aided by the magic of Necromancy, to raise those butchered in the night, and Hemomancy, to heal their injuries.

In Umbras, domain of the Tyrant Lock-And-Key, all humans are incarcerated at night where they cannot harm others or the city. Beyond that, Lock-And-Key does little to interfere with the lives of her subjects.

However, this fragile balance is threatened. A usurper lurks in the steam-riddled Undercity of Umbras, plotting his ascension to godhood. More than that, a stranger arrives in Umbras at night–crossing through the tormented, plague-consumed wilds–seeking revenge on those who murdered his brother.